Why does Google build smart lenses?

Google always wants to build a platform for advertising. By the way Google’s territory has been limited to online ads.

Let’s us think about a display ad on offline. Sometimes you might see a special offer which is advertised on a shop’s external display and then you visit the shop to look around what their product or service is. In this case a conversion was created by the offline display ad. But, Google can’t track this so far.

Smart lenses for offline advertising

If you wear smart lenses, Google might be able to track what you see on the offline and then Google can track how a conversion is created on the offline. So Google’s advertising service could be expanded to the offline.

Recently Google got succeeded to develop a smart lense. If this is commercialized, the case above could be happend in the near future.

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Will the type 1 diabetes be conquered?

My fater has had a diabets for long time. And recently I read this article which could be a real solution for ultimately curing diabetes.

I hope that this solution is commercialized as soon as possible.

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The killer app for iPad Pro with Apple Pencil

Apple has been struggled to boost iPad’s sales. The recent Apple’s earning call also warned that the sales of iPad are getting difficult to boot even though Apple launched a brand new product calling iPad Pro.

So I would like to suggest that Apple should focus on popularizing iPad Pro’s Apple Pencil to normal users.

What if you can draw a rectangle on Apple Keynote software on iPad Pro? It could be a seeling point of iPad Pro to normal users.

The combination of Keynote app on iPad Pro + Apple Pencil would be better than Keynote app on Mac. Because drawing functionality will attract normal users into Keynote for iOS.

So I hope that Apple is already preparing an update of Keynote for iOS which is fully compatible with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil. And I think that the pencil drawing function should be added to Keynote for iOS.

I have beein Keynote user since 2005. And if the update that I described above is released, I will definately buy iPad Pro with Apple Pencil to change my presentation device from Mac.

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Remove "Desktop Video Firmware Updater" process in Mac

One day I found a process named Desktop Video Firmware Updater which has an ugly icon on the system activity app on Mac and then I figured out it was from Blackmagic Design software which I installed at the past time. But, I don’t use it now.

I tried to kill the process, but, I couldn’t do it. So I found the location of the execution file at the link below,

/Library/Application Support/Blackmagic Design/Blackmagic DeckLink/Desktop Video Firmware Updater.app/Contents/MacOS/Desktop Video Firmware Updater

After removing it I finally can’t see it on the activity window. If someone has used Blackmagic Design software on Mac, please refer this post to clean up your processes on Mac.

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OmniFocus Review Perspective action using Launch Center Pro

At every night I have a time to review OmniFocus’s perspectives. But, it has been painful to tap another view back and forth in OmniFocus.

So I thoguht how I can make a flow of it. And which one would be the best tool to implement this?

My requirements are below,

1. The user interface shows a perspective list that I can easily tap.
2. After tapping I should be able to have a time to review on the perspective in OmniFocus.
3. Without scrolling I should be able to choose another perspective.

To achieve the second one, I picked up Launch Center Pro as a right choice. Because the callback function calling lc-callback can give me a time to review a perspective in OmniFocus.

If you use x-callback-url, it automatically goes back to the origin app. So I wouldn’t have a time for reviewing a perspective.

So here is my lcp action.

[list:Daily Check|Daily Check=[action:131]|Deferred=omnifocus:///perspective/{{Deferred}}?lc-callback=[action:129]|Delegated=omnifocus:///perspective/{{Delegated}}?lc-callback=[action:129]|Next=omnifocus:///perspective/{{Next Actions}}?lc-callback=[action:129]|Dayone=dayone://?lc-callback=[action:129]]

[action: 131] : It shows the daily check routine perspective that I made in OmniFocus. [action: 129] : It should be the action itself.

I considered using Workflow which is one of my favorite apps in iOS. But, in this case Launch Center Pro did a great job.

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Not useful to use Drafts with nvAlt on the Mac

Not useful to use Drafts with nvAlt on the Mac

I love the way that Notesy pursues. Because it perfectly syncs with nvAlt on the mac through Dropbox.

But, the way that Drafts explains is not appropriate for me. It takes more steps to sync with nvAlt on Mac.

Notesy looks that their update is getting slower. And I like the power of Drafts actions.

The only thing I miss on Drafts for iOS is the way that syncs with nvAlt on Mac.

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Let's learn Set in Swift language

Set is different from Array. Array is ordered. By the way Set isn’t. Another different thing is Array can have same elements.

For example,

let ar1 = [1, 1, 1, 1] 

The code above is possible in Array. But you can’t do it in Set.

Set could be similar to Dictionary. Because each element in Set must be unique like Dictionary’s key value. Set conforms Hashable protocol in order to have unique elements.

The different thing between Set and Dictionary is that Set doesn’t have Key value.

Let me organize everything above.

Collection Type	Ordered	Unique	Stores
Array	Yes	No	Elements
Dictionary	No	Keys	Key-value pairs
Set	No	Elements	Elements

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